Brilliant! Ask a bunch of American Fox News viewers about the British perception of Mitt Romney! Guess what, guys? 87% don’t see any problem. It would be especially nice if a mob of hooligans from the UK showed up to let Fox News know what you actually think. How’s Mitt Romney’s visit to Britain going? …
Category Archive: Pointless Poll
Jul 26 2012
A Chick-fil-A poll
I guess it’s topical, but I feel a bit odd to even think about it: I’ve never eaten at a Chick-fil-A anyway, not before I learned they were a business run by a fundagelical homophobe, and especially not now. Will you eat at Chick-fil-A? Yes (44.6%) No (55.4%) They’re what? One of those greasy fried …
Jul 26 2012
A re-poll
You know how much I despise internet polls — they’re meaningless and biased, they draw on an already biased sample, and they tend to be so badly worded that their results are uninterpretable — there is a science of polls and surveys, and these things ignore it all. Now how about this for an example …
Jul 19 2012
Sour grapes from an Australian conservative
Hey, we successfully pharyngulated that Australian poll. Now Prime Minister Gillard is expected to answer the top 3 questions: a question on her opposition to gay marriage, that godless question on the state-supported chaplains, and a question about veteran’s pensions. Two wingnutty questions intended to cast doubt on addressing global warming did not make the …
Jul 17 2012
Poll harder!
That poll to determine what question should be asked of the prime minister is ending soon, and it’s close. The question about chaplains is in third place; a question about same sex marriage is in second, and it’s a good one; but the first and fourth places are occupied by wingnutty global climate change denialists! …
Jul 17 2012
Not-so-pointless poll on Australian chaplains
The Atheist Foundation of Australia would like their prime minister to answer one simple question: Dear Prime Minister. Against the strongly expressed concerns of mental health professionals, teacher unions and secular organisations, why do you allow the outrageous situation to continue where largely unqualified, religious evangelists have access to young children in public schools, in …
Jul 05 2012
A poll to determine whether Northern Ireland sucks
The National Trust of Northern Ireland should be embarrassed: they’ve taken one of the geological wonders of their country and slathered it in creationist bullshit in a visitor’s centre at the Giant’s Causeway. The trust said that the exhibit gives recognition to the fact that, for creationists, the debate about the age of the Earth …
Jun 24 2012
The Blaze has a poll to show they don’t like atheists – surprise!
There has been a shift in the American public: now over half would be willing to vote for an atheist for president. We’re still at the bottom of their preferences, but it’s nice to know that we have edged up into a majority not hating us reflexively. But not at the Blaze! Glenn Beck’s site …
Jun 16 2012
Say, we haven’t done a poll in a while
I confess, so many of the polls people send to me are already trending in the right direction — and this one is no exception — so I haven’t been pushing them as hard. Have all those internet atheists realized that they have a voice all on their own, and don’t need me to tell …
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